[Qualitative assessment of the relationship of social actors with madness in a substitutive mental health service].

This study aims to evaluate qualitatively the relationship between social actors and the madness. It was based in experiences produced in a Psychosocial Care Center in the Southern Brazilian context. This is a clipping from an evaluative and qualitative study.

[Mental health in Family Health Strategy: evaluation of matrix support].

The objective of this article is to assess the matrix support under the perspective of 14 professionals of a family care unit, in an evaluative and qualitative study based on Fourth Generation Evaluation. The data were collected in observations and interviews, and were analyzed by the Constant Comparative Method, focusing on the inclusion of mental health actions in the Family Health Strategy. Professionals from these studied teams assessed the need for care support as well as technical orientations from teams that specialized in mental health as to carry out mental health actions in the territory, which could be implemented by the matrix support.

[Evaluation of a psychosocial care center in Foz do Iguaçú, Brazil].

This is an excerpt of the study An evaluation of the Psychosocial Care Centers in Southern Brazil. The objective is to evaluate the ambience of a Level II Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS, abbreviation in Portuguese) as a place for comfort. This case-study was performed using a qualitative approach and the Fourth Generation Evaluation.

[Mental care delivered in psychosocial care centers (CAPS) from the viewpoint of the professionals].

This article deals with a subproject of the Project for Evaluation of the CAPS psychosocial care centers (CAPS) in the southern region of Brazil, whose purpose was to learn how the professionals of a substitute service feel about of the mental care delivered there. The study was conducted in a CAPS II using a qualitative approach. Data were collected in interviews.

[Knowledge and theoretical studies in psychiatric nursing and mental health].

The present article consists of a bibliographical research developed with 109 articles published in Brazilian journals classified by CAPES as 'National B' or superior. Of these articles, 33 focused on knowledge and theoretical studies in psychiatric nursing and mental health which were rearranged in the sub-themes: theoretical studies with historical focus (focus in the sheltering model and focus in the transformation of the attendance of psychiatric nursing), participation of the family in the patient's process health-disease, the bearer's of psychic suffering comprehension of him/herself, stigma, use of the results of the research in psychiatric nursing, rethinking of the teaching, research instruments and work in nursing.